For higher or worse, one other Disney live-action movie adaptation of a basic animated movie is within the pipeline. This time, The Artistocats will get the remedy, with Oscar winner Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (Summer time of Soul) within the director’s chair. Very like Woman and the Tramp, Aristocats will mix live-action pictures with CGI animal characters and any fantasy parts.
As beforehand introduced, Will Gluck (Peter Rabbit) will co-write with Keith Bunin, who additionally co-wrote Pixar’s 2020 animated fantasy Onward. Gluck will additional function producer by way of his firm, Olive Bridge Leisure.
In director Wolfgang Reitherman’s unique 1970 movie, a household of aristocratic cats — Duchess and her three kittens Berlioz, Marie, and Toulouse — stay out a pampered and cultured way of life in Paris. When their proprietor’s butler discovers that the cats might be willed an enormous fortune, he kidnaps and ditches them far out within the countryside. Duchess meets and befriends an alley cat, Thomas O’Malley, who helps them discover their means dwelling to assert their inheritance.
Reitherman, often known as “Woolie,” was one in every of Disney’s famed “9 Previous Males” together with Milt Kahl, Marc Davis, Frank Thomas, Eric Larson, Ollie Johnston, Les Clark, Ward Kimball, and John Lounsbery.
Along with directing, Questlove may also government produce below his Two One 5 Leisure in addition to oversee music for the movie. Tarik Trotter, Shawn Gee and Zarah Zohlman will function government producers.
For these enthusiastic about a Disney live-action adaptation popping out this yr, The Little Mermaid swims into theaters Could 26, 2023.
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